When a lower court ruled against them on a technicality, Claud Johnson–Robert Johnson's common-law son–and his relatives appealed the decision.
In reviewing their request to reopen the case, Leflore County Circuit Judge Ashley Hines ran across the assertion that there was an 'eyewitness to Claud's conception.'
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